Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

“This is the biggest music venue in the United States,” Louis told me while I was waiting around for soundcheck.

“Bigger than a football stadium?” I was sitting on the edge of the stage and he was walking around to keep his knee from stiffening up. The place was a shed: a covered stage ( Read more... )

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

I went back to Boston for one more reset of my laundry and my psyche before I hit the road with Nomad again. On July 19th I flew from Logan to Miami to meet the entourage and who did I run into in the gate area waiting to board? Louis.

“Let me guess where you’re going,” he said, after we’ ( Read more... )

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

The Costa Mesa show was fun. The venue was smaller than a lot of the ones we’d been playing and it felt to me like the intensity went up as a result. People were very very into it.

Or maybe I was more energetic since I’d gotten a good night’s sleep. Whatever the reason, we burned with ( Read more... )

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

Soundcheck went all right. Everyone seemed mellow, and pacing themselves for three days in a row. We didn’t need to overdo it and after six weeks on the road it wasn’t like anyone needed to learn anything new.

After we were done and the other bands were doing their checks, it felt to me ( Read more... )

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

(Site glitches fixed! Turns out the disk in the web server was dying and that’s why new comments wouldn’t take. Please go back and comment now on Sanders’ brilliant Ziggy fic from last week: A Little Normal -ctan)

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Apparently I get Tempe and Tucson mixed up. Tucson I had heard was an ( Read more... )

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

(If you haven’t had a chance to go upvote DGC vol 4, now being serialized on Wattpad, go on over there and click that star icon, please? -ctan)
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Nomad moved to a bigger rehearsal space the week before hitting the road. The new place was a former airplane hangar/movie soundstage on the ( Read more... )

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

We didn’t work on Candelight that night, but we did do Why the Sky, which far as I was concerned was probably the bigger hit than Candlelight because the video had gotten so much more play. At least that had been my impression. But then I remembered what Jonathan had said, about ( Read more... )

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

After all that, Ziggy had to miss our first meeting with the light tech. He had to do some movie-related press junket in New York, and he called Carynne and told her instead of calling me. Which I suppose was okay. She was in charge of arrangements, after all, and I was fine with that. ( Read more... )